2000 Garcia Passoa 48 Raised Salon

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$ 395,000 USD

Chantiers Navals Garcia is renowned for crafting aluminum sailing yachts; in particular their round-hulled, shoal draft designs with centerboards and twin rudders. Built in Conde sur Noireau, France by skilled shipfitter/welders, these sailing yachts are highly prized for their safety and performance by world cruisers looking to go “off the beaten path.” The Passoa series of 46’ to 52’ designs is the most popular and produced model; now being eclipsed by the Exploration 45’s, 52’s, and 60’s. LORIEN is similar to the Passoa’s in many ways but was custom-designed for the original owner by Joubert-Nivelt with a raised saloon layout and extra watertight bulkheads.  LORIEN was built by the Garcia brothers with interior joinery by Andre Rameau, before the Grand Large Yachting Group purchased this company to build their Allures lines of sailing yachts and Garcia Exploration series.

 

Highlights:

Four-foot, shallow draft/centerboard design with “dry out” capability: A foil shaped centerboard swings down from an aluminum centerboard trunk located beneath the raised saloon sole. Lifting is done with 4:1 block and tackle and line led to the cockpit where a winch easily raises the board. Lowering is done by gravity. Should one venture into shallow water with the board down, it will swing up on impact to prevent damage. When drying out, this boat tips forward on a wedge-shaped skeg and balances on a section of flat section of hull beneath the mast. Rudders are lifted clear of the beach.

Lorien is exceptionally safe and strong with three watertight bulkheads ensuring floodable length survival under the worst-case scenario. Integral aluminum water tank, fuel tank, and encapsulated iron ballast compartments form a double bottom. Nine high-capacity electric bilge pumps and two manual pumps will dewater each compartment if needed. To keep this metal boat quiet, warm, cool, and dry, closed cell sprayed foam insulates all living areas above the waterline.


Dual, heavy-duty aluminum rudders and rudder tubes are massively constructed. Rudder tube tops are above the waterline allowing rudder removal in the water. In the unlikely event one rudder is damaged, disconnecting the steering linkage allows use of the second rudder. The rudder blades are canted outboard, foil shaped, and balanced. A Whitlock cardan link rod steering system provides friction free, responsive, and light control from the helm. A Whitlock Mamba drive and Raymarine autopilot with complete backup drive and computer reliably steer in any sea condition.



Why aluminum?

Aluminum is the hull material of choice for many knowledgeable cruising sailors. Its light weight and strong. Welding the hull, deck, framing, chainplates and deck hardware together results in a monolithic structure. Aluminum has enough ductility to deform and dent when impacting a submerged object rather than facture.  Well-insulated aluminum yachts are warm, dry, and quiet below. Unlike a fiberglass boat with hundreds of holes drilled in the deck for deck hardware a properly constructed aluminum yacht will be leak free; the bane of many cruising yachts. Aluminum is the ideal material for centerboard designs as the centerboard trunk and required framing needed to support lateral centerboard loads is easily engineered and fabricated; all one material of varying plate thickness.

Aluminum is also the easiest to maintain material if left unpainted. A layer of aluminum oxide protects the exterior surfaces. No need to wax, polish, paint, varnish, or repaint. Simply wash with soap and water to keep clean. Very few builders have the ability to “go naked.” The Garcia craftsmen are skilled enough to fabricate round bilge, sailing yacht that is fair and free of distortion. 5086 H3 marine grade aluminum is used throughout. Many builders hide their lumpy, wavering hulls with fairing compound and paint or take the easy way out and use chines to eliminate compound plating curves. Many uniformed sailors question Aluminum’s corrosion concerns. Avoiding or isolating dissimilar metals and a properly engineered and installed electrical system will eliminate corrosion concerns.

Shoal draft and the ability to dry out are huge advantages when plying the far corners of this planet or the US East Coast, Bahamas and Western Caribbean. Spend time viewing Google earth and charts for the Bahamas, Turks & Caicos, Florida Keys, Belize, and Chesapeake Bay. Amazing cruising areas like the Crooked-Aklins Islands region would be unavailable with even 6’ of draft. Or venture to the Bay of Fundy, the UK, or Brittaney where drying out on huge tide heights and soft bottoms is de regeuer. Even if you never take advantage of this skinny water capability, the offwind sailing characteristics of a centerboard boat are huge. With no keel to yaw around or trip over the motion and steering force are greatly reduced. On paper, righting curves might favor a fixed keel. In reality, with board raised, a centerboard boat will slide and is less likely to trip and roll when caught beam to in very large seas. Those who test sailing numerous Garcias and Allures centerboard/twin rudder boats, are amazed at how well they sail to windward. The centerboard minimizes leeway, form stability keeps heel angle at 12 degrees and steering is fingertip due to the balanced, leeward outboard canting rudder being vertical.

LOREN is a bluewater cruising sailor’s dream. Her beauty lies in her function and form rather than glistening topside paint, varnished caprails, and decorator canvas. Nothing shouts out “serious cruising yacht” like a bare aluminum hull, scoop stern, welded stern arch, solar panels, and large winches. Built by the renowned Garcia Shipyard in France LORIEN has been optimized for cruising remote regions with high quality Anderson winches and Harken sailing hardware, strong sails, Liesurefurl mainsail and low-stretch, Dyneema running rigging.

Her original owner was a veteran offshore shorthanded sailor who sailed Europe and the Atlantic. Her second/current owners of the last fifteen years purchased “Lorien” in Florida in 2011. She was trucked to Seattle and cruised between Portland and Puget Sound. In 2016, the owners retired and began full-time cruising with a trip to Alaska and British Columbia. In 2017, they circumnavigated Vancouver Island and headed south to Mexico in the fall. 2018 was spent in Central America. In early 2019, they sailed to Ecuador and onto the Galapagos Islands and north to Mexico. In 2020 as Covid hit, they sailed to Hawaii. In early 2021 they did a four-month trip to French Polynesia and back to Hawaii. That summer LORIEN was singlehanded back to Portland. LORIEN has since returned to Alaska for a summer season and then voyaged slowly south to Mexico, Panama, the Caribbean, Bahamas and is now in South Carolina.


Cape Yachts is pleased to assist you in the purchase of this vessel. This boat is centrally listed by Swiftsure Yachts. It is offered as a convenience by this broker/dealer to its clients and is not intended to convey direct representation of a particular vessel
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Specifications

  • HIN/IMO: GAR48002J000
  • Official Number: 1103908
  • LOA: 48' (14.63 Meters)
  • Type: Sail- Used
  • Year: 2000
  • Refit Year: 2022
  • Beam: 14' 6''
  • LWL: 44' 0''
  • Draft Max: 8' 7''
  • Draft Min: 3' 8''
  • Fuel Type: Diesel
  • Hull Material: Aluminum
  • Hull Finish: Bare
  • Bridge Clearance: 70' 0''
  • Fuel Tank: 264 Gallons (999.35 Liters)
  • Fresh Water: 265 Gallons (1003.13 Liters)
  • Holding Tank: 40 Gallons (151.42 Liters)
  • Displacement: 50000
  • Ballast Weight: 9259 lbs
  • Engine 1 Make: Yanmar
  • Engine 1 Model: 4JH 110
  • Engine 1 Type: Inboard

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